On the 28th of November 2013, the European COPD Coalition (ECC) and the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations (EFA) celebrated World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary ...

EFA and the ECC Commemorate World COPD Day 2013 under the Lithuanian EU Presidency
On the 28th of November 2013, EFA and the European COPD Coalition (ECC), under auspices of Lithuanian Presidency of ...

Horizon 2020: the new EU Research Programme
On the 21st of November, the plenary of the European Parliament voted on the new EU research and innovation programme for the period 2014-2020. With a bud ...

EFA/ECC event to mark the 2013 World COPD Day
EFA in collaboration with the European COPD Coalition is preparing joint event to mark the 2013 World COPD Day and as a platform to launch the results o ...

Adoption of a strong Tobacco Products Directive in danger!
The European Parliament rescheduled the debate and the vote on the Tobacco Products Directive which should have taken place in September 20 ...

The ENVI Committee protected health of EU citizens, not interests of the tobacco industry
The ENVI Committee, the leading Committee responsible for the Tobacco Products Directive at the European Par ...

Tobacco Product Directive Watered Down
The proposed Tobacco Product Directive was discussed in committees at the European Parliament as well as by the EU health ministers at the Council of the Europ ...

EFA symposium on the Call to Action on respiratory allergies
On June 2013 EFA, in collaboration with EAACI and WAO, organised a symposium on its Call to Action on respiratory allergies. The event na ...

Tobacco Product Directive
On May 30 the ENVI Committee discussed amendments to the proposed Tobacco Product Directive, which is currently being discussed at the European Parliament. More than 1360 a ...

EFA hands over its Allergy Alert Paper
On the World Asthma Day of May 7, 2013 the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patient’s Associations (EFA) handed over an Allergy Alert Paper ...

The European Health Report 2012
The European Health report 2012 describing the overall improvements in health in the WHO European region has now been made available on-line. The general report, publ ...

Policy Round-Up
The results of the HealthVent project were presented at the European Parliament (see article above) and the European Commission was requested to issue a Green Paper on indoor air qua ...

HealthVent event at the European Parliament – Health-based ventilation guidelines for Europe
On 20 February 2013 EFA organised an event in the European Parliament at which the HealthVent project con ...